Monday, December 23, 2013

WJC: Denmark Gets Promoted, Hosts Get Demoted.

Team Denmark will be coming to Canada for 2015. The Danes defeated Slovenia 4-2 in the first game on the final day of competition to stay undefeated and get promoted to the Top Division for the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Canada next December.

Nikolaj Ehlers from your Mooseheads collected another point; the first assist on what was the team's second goal of the game that made it 2-0 Denmark with 1:16 left in the second period. Nikolaj finished the tournament with 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points which was good enough for 9th in overall scoring.

Host Poland gets relegated to Division 1 Group B play for next year's championships. Poland received only one point in a shootout loss to Slovenia on December 18.

Here are the full standings from Group A
Denmark   5-0-0-0    15 points
Latvia   4-0-0-1    12 points
Belarus   3-0-0-2    9 points
Austria   2-0-0-3    6 points
Slovenia   0-1-0-4    2 points
Poland   0-0-1-4    1 point

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